exo-pla-net

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by exo-pla-net 2y ago
That's a good point: the greatest value that we can glean from one another is likely not epistemological "facts about the world", nor is it even the predictive models seen in science and higher brow social commentary, but i
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by exo-pla-net 2y ago
I don't know what difference you are referring to. I was agreeing with you. And also agreed: many trumpet the merits of "unassisted" human output. However, they're suffering from ancestor veneration: human writing has al
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by exo-pla-net 2y ago
This is a tech site, where >50% of us are programmers who have achieved greater productivity thanks to LLM advances. And yet we're filled to the gills with Luddite sentiments and AI content fearmongering. Imagine the hysteria and th
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by exo-pla-net 2y ago
This article was published in an anything-goes journal [1] by a crackpot [2] at a bottom-tier university. At a glance, the article is ranting, not science. An axiom: When the best that dissenters can come up with can't be taken serious
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by exo-pla-net 2y ago
Because humans have 0% error rate? Whether or not the error function can be reduced to zero, I anticipate that human meddling will soon present more of a wrench in the gears of machine cognition than a source of error correction. We see thi
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by exo-pla-net 2y ago
Plants ain't got brains. Gotta use their genome to process information. /Wild speculation.
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by exo-pla-net 2y ago
This is a fix for a 13 year old bug from SpaceStation 13, a multiplayer computer game. The bug fix is for an obsolete engine for the game. It's a fix, but it's completely pointless. A meme fix. More broadly, it's probably not
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by exo-pla-net 2y ago
A) You did write it, even if it were a joke. Don't be a liar-pants. B) It wasn't a joke. You called it " fairly troll-ish". It was thus fairly serious. It is your mind child, such as it is. It's okay if you are
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by exo-pla-net 2y ago
The Planck length is analogous to the pixel. Our parent universe has a much tinier Planck length, and hence it acts as an ultra high resolution monitor, on which it can fit all the pixels of our universe, as well as an abundance of parallel
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by exo-pla-net 2y ago
gwern! FWIW, I read what you have to say in the same, careful way that I read Bostrom. You're a treasure.
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by exo-pla-net 2y ago
He's not saying the race is stupid. He is saying that it is more stupid , an operant he expounds on, revealing his underlying meaning as both accurate and mild. A factual statement is not and is never denigration. If you and you speci
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by exo-pla-net 2y ago
> Are you saying that the author has no rational to say that? Sure, instrumental rationale: PR. And, because I believe that Bostrom says what he means, Bostrom probably does think what he said was repugnant, but probably not in a way t
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by exo-pla-net 2y ago
An assertion without rationale is noise or worse. "That's racist; cancel them!" falls in the latter category. It's the mindless baying of the rabble. You don't engage with the rabble, as there's no fixing stu
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by exo-pla-net 2y ago
The quote is from their "Final Report, which is the first link in the submitted article.
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by exo-pla-net 2y ago
This is a smear taken out of context. What Bostrom actually had to say is both accurate and mild: > “I have always liked the uncompromisingly objective way of thinking and speaking: the more counterintuitive and repugnant a formulation,
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by exo-pla-net 2y ago
Seems the incompetent and curiously hostile Philosophy Faculty at Oxford killed FHI. > While FHI had achieved significant academic and policy impact, the final years were affected by a gradual suffocation by Faculty bureaucracy. The fle
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by exo-pla-net 3y ago
They're operating under the same principle that many of us have in refusing to help engineer weaponry: we don't want other people's actions using our tools to be on our conscience. Unfortunately, many people believe in though
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by exo-pla-net 3y ago
Where / how did you get this?
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by exo-pla-net 3y ago
Results: significantly less snoring and sleep apnea. N=25
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by exo-pla-net 3y ago
Sounds like they ought hire you.
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by exo-pla-net 3y ago
https://archive.is/9ErBf
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by exo-pla-net 3y ago
I sterilize my N95/KF94 masks with UV light for reuse. If anyone wants to follow suit, beware fake UV bulbs. Test your product / bulb with a banana. Put masking tape on the banana, then expose the banana to the light for a few hou
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by exo-pla-net 3y ago
Irrelevant to your point: some vodkas to my and many others' (generally Eastern European/Russian) tastes do taste good. I drink Stoli the same way I drink whiskey.
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by exo-pla-net 3y ago
Whatever their merits, PWAs are not a Google side project. The idea was first proposed by Steve Jobs and Microsoft is excited about it, too [1]. In other words, all the big players are in on it. It's a good idea and frankly superior
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by exo-pla-net 3y ago
Why wouldn't our AI girlfriends suggest that we avoid sugary drinks, to keep the American workforce healthy, a la CCP public efforts? Or why wouldn't our AI girlfriends tell us exactly what they deem each of us want to hear? It
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by exo-pla-net 3y ago
Unhinged, wild speculation. A teaser: evil corporations will make your AI girlfriends suggest that you buy Monster energy drinks. Embarrassing that HN apparently has such a large tinfoil hat contingent.
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by exo-pla-net 3y ago
# What is this article about? This text is a review of the book "Monet: The Restless Vision" by Jackie Wullschläger, discussing the art scene in New York, the ethical issues in the art world, and the life and work of Claude Monet.
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by exo-pla-net 3y ago
Maybe, but about 40% of people who lean Democrat believe that "woman" refers only to biological sex. [1] This is not a MAGA thing. (I myself lean strongly Democratic.) Among all Americans, 60% (and growing) believe that a transwom
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by exo-pla-net 3y ago
This is the 2007 version. The latest 2016 version can be read here: https://web.archive.org/web/20220615001635/http://blizzard.c... Or here: https://people.mpi-sws.org/~jcmace/teachi
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by exo-pla-net 3y ago
For anyone into this sort of game, I always recommend Starsector [1]. It's a beautifully made game that is in active development and already very fun to play. [1] https://fractalsoftworks.com/

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